Charles mills



(No Model.)

' 0. MILLS. DEVICE FOR PREPARING GARD CLOTHING.

No. 581.748. Patented May 4, 1897.

aren't FF YITE CHARLES MILLS, OF NE\VTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO THE PETTEE MACHINE \VORKS, OF SAME PLACE.

DEVICE FOR PREPARING CARD-=CLOTHING.

SPEGIFICAIIION forming part of Letters Patent No. 581 ,748, dated May 4, 1897'.

Application filed February 24,1896. Serial No. 580,844 iNo model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern: the wired section of the clothing enters the Be it known that I, CHARLES MILLs, a subrecess a, the ends of the prongs have been ject of Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, returned over upon the under surface of the siding in Newton, in the county of Middlesex clothing, but not having been embedded in 55 and State of Massachusetts, have invented a it, and they are disposed over the beds a.

new and useful Improvement in Devices for The plunger or pressure head C has the Fastening Card-Clothing to the Flats of Reflat point-ei'nbedding sections 0 and the devolving-Flat Carding-Engines, of which the pressed section 0 between them, and these following is a specification. embeddirig-sections c are also located so as 60 IO The subject-matter of this invention was to be immediately above the turned-over originally described in the joint application prongs, and upon the insertion of the presof Robert IV. Hunton and myself, filed Ausure-head between the sections Z) of the clips gust 1, 189%, Serial No. 519,14t9, and it com and its movement upon the prongs they are prises means for embedding the partiallyembedded in the clothing, so that their sur- 65 :5 turnedover prongs of fasteningclips einfaces are flush therewith and without bring ployed for attaching card-clothing to flats in ing material pressure to bear upon the wired the inner surface of said clothing near its section thereof. It is desirable that the edges and without injury to the wire clothpoints or ends of the prongs should be thus ing or intermediate wired section of the embedded into the substance of the clotho clothing. It comprises a holder for holding ing in order that its under surface may be the clips and the clothing, the structure and made as fiat or level as possible before the operation of which are hereinafter described, clothing is secured to the flat, as it is desirand a plunger or pressure head having surable that there should be no bunches or faces or sections along each edge adapted to irregularities upon its under surface to in 75 2 5 be brought simultaneously into contact with any way throw out of shape or displace the the partial]y-turned-over points of the prongs wired clothing. I thus obtain a clothing and to exert pressure thereon, whereby they which is prepared for subsequent applicaare embedded into the substance of the clothtion to a flat by having rigidly secured to its ing, the said pressing-surfaces being sepaedges, in advance of its application to the 80 rated by a recess which prevents pressure he flat, attaching-clips which are not only in the ing applied to the section of the clothing besubsequent attaching operation employed for tween the edges. securing the clothing to the flat, but also for In the drawings, Figure 1 represents the stretchingtheclothingintheactofsecuringit. card-clothing and the clips attached to its The walls of the holder are separated from 8 edges as they are formed and left after the each other by a space which holds the clips clip applying devices have finished their at a distance apart somewhat less than the work. Fig. 2 represents the clothingand at- Width of the flat to which the clothing is to tached clips as placed in a holder preparabe secured, or, in other words, the clips are tory to the action of the pointembedding attached to the clothing in its unstretched 9o plunger or pressure head. Fig. 3 represents condition.

the relation of the clothing, clips, prongs, and Having thus fully described my invention, pressure-head at the end of the embedding op- I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent eration; and Fig. 4 is a View of the clothing of the United Statesand attached clips removed from the holder. 1. In a device for attaching clips to card- 5 A represents the holder. It has the beds clothing, thecombination of a holder having a, which are separated from each other by the beds a for holding the clips as specified the recess a and the side walls a, extending and attached wire clothing, the intermediupwardly from the outer edges of the beds. ate recess a for receiving the wired section The beds are of a width to receive the secof the clothing, and the side walls a sepa- I00 tions 1) of the clips 13, and the sections Z) of rated from each other by a space equal to the the clips bear against the walls a IVhile width of the clothing and attached clips, with a plunger or pressure head having the prongembedded sections 0 adapted to be brought against the partially turned ends of the prongs projecting from the inner surface of the clothing and to press them downward into the substance of the clothing, as and for the purposes specified.

2. The combination in a device for attaching clips to card-clothing, of the beds a for receiving and holding the clothing upon its face side and the attached clips secured to the clothing as specified, with the pressurehead C having the point-flattening sections a and adapted to be closed upon the points of said clips and flatten the same into the rear surface of the clothing between the clips, as and for the purposes described.

3. The combination, in a device for attaching clips to card-clothing, of a bed a adapted to receive the face side of the clips, a clip-sustaining wall a rising from the inner edge of the bed, and a pressure-head 0 having a point embedding section 0 and adapted to act upon the rear surface of the clothing, whereby the points of the clips extending above the inner surface of the cloththereof.

4. The combination in a device for attaching clips to card-clothing, of a holder for holding the Wired card-clothing with the clips partially attached thereto by its front edges only, the same comprising the beds a to receive the face of the clothing, Wit-h the pressure-head having the point-embedding surfaces 0 and the recess a between them to act upon the rear surface of the clothing, as and for the purposes described.

CHARLES MILLS.

In presence of- A. J. M. MONAMARA, S. A. THOMPSON.

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